Advice for a friend re selling a pony

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Meeka76

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My friend recently sold a pony. She was very honest in that when the person came to try the pony she said that the pony could be a little cheeky at times and may slow down or stop when being ridden and if you gave her a kick or a tap with the whip she might have a little kickout with the leg but was in no way scary or dangerous and once you did this once the pony just got on with its job.
The pony has been ridden for a few months by children of all abilities and has never done anything awful and no one has ever fallen off of it. The pony has done all sorts of activities and has been fab.
The pony was tried in the school, alone, with another pony, hacking, roads, woods, grooming, tacking up etc.
The pony was not expensive and was sold as what it was, an allrounder who could be a bit cheeky.
The pony was not vetted.
Pony has now been gone for a few weeks and now they want to return pony as when it was being ridden it was a bit cheeky with the stick( rider has not fallen off of pony) so the intructor got on to sort the pony out and the pony got upset and bucked the instructor off, this pony has never shown any behaviour like this before.
Do you think the pony should be returned or do you think the new owner should give pony more time to settle in?
Friend would like some advice!
 
They have paid the money, it's up to them to sort out the problem and give the pony some more time to settle down.

I let my pony go on trial and he came back a wreck, if you take the pony back you might not be able to sell it for ages if, they have really upset it.

Depends on weather financially you can afford to buy it back and potentially have it for a while.
 
What did your friend write on the receipt for the pony when they paid for it? Sometimes people put a description, passport number etc plus something like 'as seen and tried.'
 
Depends if previous owner is worried about welfare of pony in new home. Personally I'd be worried about the kind of instructor who encourages children to use sticks and annoys pony enough (be being to heavy/overuse of whip?) to end up on the floor. But then I'm a home-for-life type. Don't see that owner is /obliged/ to take pony back unless she wants to.
 
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